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(No Model.)

A. GUDMUNSEN.

BAIL JOINT.

No. 532,197.' Patented Jan. 8, 1-895.

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' UNITED STATES.

PATENT OFFICE.

ABRAHAM GUDMUNSEN, OF LEHI CITY, UTAH TERRITORY, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TOJEREMIAH E. GOTTER, OF SAME PLACE.

RAIL-JOINT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 532,197, dated January8, 1 895.-

Application filed May 28, 1894. Serial No. 512,743. (No model.)

Joint, of which the following is a specification.

The invention relates to improvements in rail joints.

The object of the present invention is to improve the construction ofrail joints, and to provide a simple and inexpensive one, which willform practically a continuous unbroken rail to avoid the jarring noisesincident to car wheels crossing an ordinary joint, to prevent the railssagging at their ends, and to avoid injury to road beds and rollingstock.

The invention consists in the construction and novel combination andarrangement of parts, hereinafter fully described, illustrated in theaccompanying drawings, and pointed out in the claim hereto appended.

In the drawings-Figure 1 is a perspective view of a rail jointconstructed in accordance with this invention. Fig. 2 is a transversesectional view of the same. Fig. 3 is a vertical longitudinal sectionalview, showing the key of the fish-plate interlocking with the grooves ofthe rails. Fig. tie a detail perspective view of the inner fish-plate.Fig. 5 is a similar view of an end of one of the rails. 7

Like numerals of reference indicate correspondin g parts in all thefigures of the drawings.

1-1 designate rails, which have their adjacent ends 2 beveled at theinner faces of their tops and webs, or out diagonally, forming slightlyshouldered points, which are arranged adjacent to each other; but thebevel may be varied as desired. The rails are connected by inner andouter fish-plates 3 and 4, and horizontal bolts 5, which pass throughthe fish-plates and the'webs of the rails in the usual manner. The outerfish-plate is of the ordinary construction, while the inner fishplate 3is provided with a triangular enlargement 6, which fits in the angle orrecess formed by the two rails; and it provides practically a continuousrail, the enlargement taking the place of the portions cut away from therails. The enlargement is formed integral with the inner fish-plate, andit prevents the wheels from coming in contact with and depressing ormashing down the ends of the rails. It prevents the noises incident tothe passage of car wheels over ordinary rail joints, and the consequentannoyance to travelers, and it avoids injury to the road bed and therolling stock.

The bottom flanges at the inner sides of the rails are provided on theirupper faces with longitudinal V shaped grooves 7, which receive andhaveinterlocked in them a depending longitudinally disposed Wedge-shaped key8, formed integral with the inner fishplate. The key is located directlybeneath the triangular enlargement and interlocking with the groovesgreatly strengthens the construction, and prevents any lateralseparation of the parts.

It will be seen that the rail joint is simple and comparativelyinexpensive in construction, that it provides, practically, a continuousrail, and combines all the advantages of such. 1

Changes in the form, proportion and the minor details of constructionmay be resorted to without departing from the principle or sacrificingany of the advantages of this invention.

What I claim is- In a rail joint, the combination of the rails, havingtheir adjacent ends beveled at their inner sides, and provided in theupper faces of their inner bottom flanges with longitudinal V-shapedgrooves, an outer fish plate, an inner fish plate having at its innerside a triangular enlargement fitting in the recess formed by the cutaway portions of the rails, said inner fish plate completing the treadsof the rails and arranged flush with the same, and being provided with adependinglongitudinally disposed wedge-shaped key located beneath thetriangular enlargement and terminating at the ends thereof andinterlocking with the grooves of the rails, and the connecting boltspassing through the fish platesand the rails, substantially asdescribed.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixedmy signature in the presence of two witnesses.

ABRAHAM GUDMUN SEN.

Witnesses:

W. F. WELSH, JAMES HARWOOD.

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